#muse: laurence

[crimsonlocks]

Starter for @crybaby-tarnished Laurence was standing in front of a wall. Quite literally. The Academy of Raya Lucaria was blocked by a magical wall and according to his information, he needed a glintstone key for it. After a few deathes and a bit of running around Laurence found a map of where one should be, but when he went there, there was no glintstone key around. Confused, he went to ask around and found out that another Tarnished had been there recently. And apparently she often was at the Roundtable Hold. So that was where Laurence waited and once he saw her, he casually strolled over. “Hey, I heard that you are in possession of something that could help me.”, he said, “It’s called a glintstone key. Is that true?”

#may the good blood guide your way: in character #verse: elden ring #muse: laurence #interaction #closed starter

[lockawayknight]

@spellbladerogier can't believe this guy topped laurence

#mun art #yes i muse laurence in private now i would like to formally apologise to humanity #anyway #warm up doodle cus i havent drawn in like a month ugh #vacay soon tho so can get to art trades and such :] #hi hi hiiiiii everyone surprisingly i'm alive

[withgoodblood]

#Muse | Laurence First Vicar #Bloodborne #Vicar Laurence #I need to draw him again!83 #my art #PiccoGirl #Picco Girl

[sharp-teeth-and-wide-grins]

Big brain moment with my ocs crossing over:

Eleanor would absolutely get invested in the scummy practices of Cassie's dad and probably write an article about it. Once she realizes the impact it has on Cassie and what her article might've influenced a bit, she takes a lot of pity on Cassie and tries to resolve her past mistakes by helping her house. (Like giving her a space to live in, maybe pitch a book idea to her to try to clear her name, but Cassie ultimately doesn't take it up). This doesn't cover the whole shock Eleanor would go through if she wrote about Cassie's dad, then took up the Blackwater Masscare-VDLG story she has in her main verse, and then met Cassie through that story.

I feel like Eleanor and Cassie would sort of relate to one another with having shady/criminal parents. Eleanor being the daughter of two train robbers/outlaws and being taken in by her grandmother. She always wanted to know her parents, which is partly why she investigates criminals (like Dutch) to try to get a better idea of what their mindset was like. But also having the void feeling of having no parents, but being taken in by someone. So he had no connection with her parents, only her caregiver/guardian. Cassie knew her dad, of course, but was blind to his criminal practices and was manipulated half of the time. But Cassie also feels a disconnect with her father, who he was and how she never got close to him. This only got worse when she learned of her father's schemes.

#( 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒅𝒊𝒂𝒓𝒚 ; headcanon (( Cassie )) #( 𝑵𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒔 ; headcanon (( Eleanor )) #( I still need to work more to develop Eleanor but so far I just noticed this similarity lmao ) #( this makes Lydia's over protective mother look tame in comparison ) #( tbf Lydia actually is one of my muses that has a better relationship with her parents compared to most of my muses ) #( her mother might just dislike every person she dates after Laurence lmao )

[sxnguinesxnctum]

Hah.

He finally shows himself.

#laurences muse: zzz #gehrman: #laurence's muse: I AM AWAKENED #|| Terras Vicerit Tranem Bestia † dash commentary ||

[a-reverii]

▸ THE MUSES

" i heard an unhappy ending . . . "

› harry potter ━ ( sirius black , regulus black , remus lupin , cedric diggory )

› grishaverse ━ ( kaz brekker , the darkling )

› little women ━ ( theodore laurence )

› the picture of dorian gray ━ ( dorian gray )

" . . . it sort of sounds like you leaving . . . "

━━ back to navigation.

#my : character list #my : muses #sirius black x reader #regulus black x reader #remus lupin x reader #cedric diggory x reader #kaz brekker x reader #the darkling x reader #theodore laurence x reader #dorian gray x reader #sirius black drabble #regulus x reader #remus lupin imagine #sirius black fic #regulus black imagine #remus lupin fanfiction #little women #the marauders #marauders x you

[0ctobres]

tag dump: jo

#. * ⭑ ☾ ◌ ﹙🎩﹚𝑗𝑜 ⸻ j. march. #. * ⭑ ☾ ◌ ﹙🎩﹚𝑗𝑜 ⸻ marmee. #. * ⭑ ☾ ◌ ﹙🎩﹚𝑗𝑜 ⸻ amy. #. * ⭑ ☾ ◌ ﹙🎩﹚𝑗𝑜 ⸻ beth. #. * ⭑ ☾ ◌ ﹙🎩﹚𝑗𝑜 ⸻ meg. #. * ⭑ ☾ ◌ ﹙🎩﹚𝑗𝑜 ⸻ laurie. #. * ⭑ ☾ ◌ ﹙🎩﹚𝑗𝑜 ⸻ aunt march. #. * ⭑ ☾ ◌ ﹙🎩﹚𝑗𝑜 ⸻ friedrich. #. * ⭑ ☾ ◌ ﹙🎩﹚𝑗𝑜 ⸻ wants. #. * ⭑ ☾ ◌ ﹙🎩﹚𝑗𝑜 ⸻ replies. #. * ⭑ ☾ ◌ ﹙🎩﹚𝑗𝑜 ⸻ aes. #. * ⭑ ☾ ◌ ﹙🎩﹚𝑗𝑜 ⸻ threads. #. * ⭑ ☾ ◌ ﹙🎩﹚𝑗𝑜 ⸻ about. #. * ⭑ ☾ ◌ ﹙🎩﹚𝑗𝑜 ⸻ musings. #. * ⭑ ☾ ◌ ﹙🎩﹚𝑗𝑜 ⸻ mr. laurence.

[freyasmoments]

Songs that Inspire Chapters

Artistic expression comes in many forms, and as varied are the muses that inspire them. A muse can be a person, a thing, or in my case, music. Writing can be challenging on days when I'm not necessarily internally feeling what I intended to express in my writing. That's where music fills in what's missing.

Sometimes, I have a select playlist of songs that have been the backdrop to some of the scenes I've written, which are relative only to a specific work. But there are some songs that are so universally emotional that through them the words just drip from my fingertips, the keyboard tattooing them onto the screen before I can even analyze the word choices I've made. And often, revising those passages isn't warranted.

These are some of the songs that have inspired some of the more emotional scenes in my writing, some of them inspiring entire chapters.

Happy New Year, enjoy.

Draw Your Swords - Angus & Julia Stone

Most intense lyrics:

"See her come down, through the clouds I feel like a fool I ain't got nothing left to give Nothing to lose

So come on Love, draw your swords Shoot me to the ground You are mine, I am yours Lets not fuck around

Cause you are, the only one Cause you are, the only one"

Arcade - Duncan Laurence

Most intense lines:

"Loving you is a losing game"

Minefields - Faouzia & John Legend

Most intense lines: Almost the whole song

"Now this might be a mistake That I’m calling you this late But these dreams I have of you ain’t real enough Started bringing up the past How the things you love don’t last Even though this isn’t fair for both of us Maybe I’m just a fool I still belong with you Anywhere you, anywhere you are These minefields that I walk through What I risk to be close to you These minefields keeping me from you What I risk to be close to you Close to you I didn’t notice what I lost Until all the lights were off And not knowing what you’re up to tortured me Now this might be a mistake We’re broken in so many ways But I’ll piece us back together slowly"

For You - Angus & Julia Stone

Most intense lines: "If I talk real slowly If I try real hard To make my point dear, That you have my heart. Here I go. I'll tell you, what you already know. If you love me, with all of your heart. If you love me, I'll make you a star in my universe. You'll never have to go to work. You'll spend everyday, shining your light my way."

You Broke Me First - Tate McRae

Most intense lines:

"I know you, you're like this When shit don't go your way you needed me to fix it And like me, I did But I ran out of every reason"

Without You - Ursine Vulpine & Annaca

Most intense lines:

"Cause I don't want the world to turn without you And I don't want the sun to burn without you"

#writing inspiration #creative writing #writing musings #music for writing #angus and julia stone #duncan laurence #without you #you broke me first #breakup songs #sad songs #love songs #indie music #minefields #loving you is a losing game #songs for writing #creative inspiration #music #writing and editing #Youtube

[amymarch-defender]

theodore laurence did NOT visit amy march every day when she was at aunt march’s house to entertain her when she was sad and frightened for her sick sister and he did NOT instantly go see her again once beth was better even though he was exhausted and it was the middle of the night because he kept her promise of being there to tell her the instant beth recovered and he did NOT run after her in europe when she was driving a carriage because it was the first time he had seen her in years and he did NOT spend all that time in europe with her and he did NOT unknowingly picture her as his muse as he wrote his opera and he did NOT end up taking her “rousing” words seriously and using them to literally change his life after he hit rock bottom and he did NOT drop everything and travel across europe to be with her when her sister died even though he thought she despised him and he did NOT confess his love to her by T ENDERLY replying to her “How well we pull [the boat] together” with “So well that I wish we might always pull in the same boat. Will you, Amy?” and he did NOT refer to her as “my wife” every five seconds when they were finally married because he was, as he says “so proud of her” just for you crusty ugly bitches to say he only married her because he settled for her and he couldn’t have jo

#I WILL NOT TAKE AMY SLANDER AND AMYxLAURIE SLANDER ANYMORE #THE FACT THAT THERES SO MUCH MORE PROOF OF HIS LOVE FOR HER BUT I CANT RLLY NAME IT RN CAUSE ITS 3 AM #MOVIE LITTLE WOMEN FANS READ THE NOV CHALLENGE #little women #amy march #theodore laurence #amy x laurie

[crimsonlocks]

@schattenmagier

continued from this ask

Laurence was in a bad mood. He never liked to deal with the choir and today had been a fucking desaster again. He planned to just retreat in his office, get a blood ministration and get drunk at the same time.  His mood bettered in an instant when he saw the cat. Not one of his cat, he didn’t have a ginger cat. His face instantly went to a smile even though the cat does its best to ignore him. Ah, he has experience with the strays. 

Laurence clicked his tongue to gets its attention and then rustled with a bag of dried fish treats he always had in the pocket of his coat. “Hey beautiful, want a snack?”, he asked, staying where he was, waiting for the cat to approach him instead. 

#may the good blood guide your way: in character #verse: the healing church #muse: laurence #interaction #schattenmagier #cat lilli cat lilli cat lilli!

[pinkie-satan]

tagged by @darling-valentine, thank you so much <3

-last song: Barricades from SNK

-song stuck in head: rn it's Arcade by Duncan Laurence

-fav colors: lilac, purple, wine red

-currently watching: Sousou no Frieren

-currently reading: still need to finish that book about Baldwin IV

-currently craving: mint ice cream

-last movie: rewatched Crimson Peak

-sweet, spicy or savory: feeling sweet rn

-relationship status: single and afraid

-current obsession: some historical figures- Baldwin IV the Lepper King and Kosem Sultan

-three fav foods: all pasta, all pizza, all sushi (but make it vegetarian!)

-last thing googled: some uni related stuff

-dream trip: Japan as well! i wanna see Shirakawa Go and Nana caffe

-anything you want right now: a new hot water bottle, i broke the cap of mine few days ago ://

tagging: @roseofcards90, @zerkwastaken, @moonhydrangea, @seelenity, @muninnhuginn, @not-quitenormal, @minty-muse, @thatsthatthisthis, @seiyv, @defonotacat, @bismuthwisdom, @fifi-soup, @witch-of-illusions, @evilnicegirl, @onewholivesinloops and literally everyone else who would like to! (no pressure ofc if u don't!)

#thanks valentine! #tag game

[isostatic-uplift]

Musing about female aviators and Longwings…

How many women do the Aerial Corps train relative to the number of Longwings/Longwing eggs? Surely there must be more than the number of dragons, because it seems inevitable that some would die in action before becoming captains… but how many more are there? Based on the set of characters we encounter it seems like they’re relatively few and far between (not that I trust Laurence to actually notice the number that there are based on his initial impressions of Emily Roland and Harcourt, lol). If there are so few, are they near-guaranteed to become captains? Do any of the male aviators resent that? I wonder too what it must be like for the women who never end up being captains, given that they’re only in the Corps because of the Longwings… what happens if one of the women fails an attempted harnessing? Does she leave the Corps at that point, or stay in as a lieutenant?

And, for all of the female aviators, where do they go when they retire? What do they do? It’s hard to imagine them integrating back into the rest of society afterwards if the existence of female aviators is supposed to be a secret, but we never see what happens instead.

Also I wonder if Longwings can tell if people are trans? Like have they refused potential captains because of it, or made unexpected choices of bystanders? Have any of those folks realized they’re trans because of it? (If so I guess it means more than one egg cracked at the hatching, ha)! I keep thinking that I would 100% have run away to become an aviator if I were a character in that universe, because doing so would be the closest thing to living as a man — not that I imagine this Temeraire-universe self to be sufficiently self-aware to put words to that — but gosh a failed harnessing would be a devastating way to come to that understanding, especially if the only reason for being allowed in is to harness a Longwing…

#temeraire series #temeraire

[sharp-teeth-and-wide-grins]

#( 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂 𝒈𝒊𝒇𝒕 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 ; Laurence (( Lydia )) #( 𝑯𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒈𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒔 ; musings (( Lydia )) #Spotify

[sxnguinesxnctum]

[ im gonna make a new promo later actually ]

#|| Mater Sanguine † ooc || #is his muse here? idk #but god DAMN i listened to empty walls and thats a Laurence Song alright

[bitter69uk]

Heartfelt gratitude to the attendees of last night’s Lobotomy Room cinema club presentation of Butterfield 8 (1960) at Fontaine’s! Some musings based on my introduction: Butterfield 8 is the story of the doomed love affair between a Manhattan call girl and a rich married man. (Seriously – who among us can’t relate?). Sure, the film has a terrible reputation but that’s what this film club is for - reappraising “bad” movies. I’d argue Butterfield 8 is juicy, irresistible good fun. If it’s trash, Butterfield 8 is the acme of trash. Rewatching it, I was struck by the persistent strain of melancholy throughout the film. You just know it’s all going to end tragically. The opening moments of Elizabeth Taylor waking up alone, hungover and naked in bed, donning a white slip, sparking the first cigarette of the day and prowling around silently feels like something out of a European art movie. It boasts snappy, biting quotable dialogue. Considering it was made during the Hays Code, it’s a genuine attempt by a Hollywood film to tackle adult content like adultery, premarital sex, promiscuity and prostitution. (It does what it could get away with at the time). As discussed, Taylor hated the script and only took this role begrudgingly (it was her final contractual obligation with MGM, liberating her to make Cleopatra with 20th Century Fox), but you’d never guess from the raw emotion, glamour and sensuality of her performance. Butterfield 8 captures Elizabeth Taylor at her most “Elizabeth Taylor”. She deserved that Oscar, damn it! It also gloriously captures the fashions and décor of 1960: pink marble bathrooms. Powder blue telephones. Swanky cocktail lounges with red flocked wallpaper, gilt-framed mirrors and chandeliers. Bouffant hairstyles. Cocktail dresses with plunging necklines. Full-length mink coats. (Boy, does that mink coat cause a lot of trouble!). Squint your eyes, and Laurence Harvey and Dina Merrill anticipate Don and Betty Draper of Mad Men. There’s no April film club (I’ll be attending the Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekender) but see you again in May. Now go brush your teeth with scotch and scrawl a message on a mirror with pink frosted lipstick!

#lobotomy room #elizabeth taylor #liz taylor #butterfield 8 #melodrama #lurid #sordid #vintage smut #vintage sleaze #bad movies for bad people #bad movies we love #kitsch

[mariacallous]

It was the literary scandal of the decade, the ultimate betrayal and, it turned out, the end of Truman Capote’s career. Published in Esquire in November 1975, “La Côte Basque 1965”, an excerpt from Capote’s then-forthcoming novel Answered Prayers, saw the celebrated writer share the innermost secrets (and most scandalous gossip) entrusted to him by his beloved Swans, the wealthy and glamorous group of high-society women that included Babe Paley, Slim Keith, Gloria Guinness, Lee Radziwill, Marella Agnelli and CZ Guest.

Visceral in its revelations of substance abuse, sexual assault, a murder cover-up, a graphic description of extra-marital period sex and, to top it off, bestiality, the article was a sensation for all the wrong reasons. It saw Capote deserted by his closest friends and shunned from the New York clique he had yearned to be a part of growing up – and, against the odds, had managed to infiltrate as an adult thanks to the success of his novels In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

Capote’s questionable actions (and the irresistible drama they precipitated) form the backbone of Ryan Murphy’s long-awaited Feud, inspired by Laurence Leamer’s bestselling 2021 book, Capote’s Women. An all-star cast will bring the man and his muses back to life when the Gus Van Sant-directed series premieres this month on FX in the US, but what was the real-life fallout from the publication of “La Côte Basque 1965” like for Capote and co?

“He never recovered from it,” says Ebs Burnough, director of the 2021 documentary The Capote Tapes, a five-year discovery project that saw him uncover hours of audio footage of Capote, and which gives the most thorough insight into the flawed figure to date. “[These were] friendships born and nurtured over 20-something years. All of a sudden, not one but all of his friends – who had been like his family, because he didn’t really have any family – were not speaking to him; there was literally nowhere for him to go. He was alone drinking, and the phone stopped ringing. He was a man alone on an island.”

Described by the New York Times as “the high-society temple of French cuisine”, La Côte Basque – just off Fifth Avenue and a stone’s throw from The Plaza – was a fine-dining eatery as famous for its juicy gossip as it was for its succulent Coeur de Filet Périgourdine. No one, however, dared to write about what was said and done there – until Capote. While his ostracising may seem like an obvious consequence for spilling society’s sordid secrets, Capote was flawed by the outrage.

Before publication, he boasted to People that he was planning on assassinating his characters with a pen instead of a gun: “There’s the handle, the trigger, the barrel, and, finally, the bullet. And when that bullet is fired from the gun, it’s going to come out with a speed and power like you’ve never seen – wham!”

Success was, in his head, assured, as Capote had been open about writing “La Côte Basque 1965”, bragging about the stories he would tell, continues Burnough. “He was working on that piece for over 20 years, so in his mind he didn’t anticipate the fall out because all of them knew he was working on it.” Upon the outrage, Capote was, “totally abandoned but also indignant”, he continues. “He even said, ‘Hey! What did they expect from me? I’m a writer!’”

Capote had form. “Remember, this was something he had done with Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” explains Burnough. “When you think about it, Holly Golightly is essentially a call girl, yet with Audrey Hepburn [playing her], and because it was so beautifully written, lots of New York socialites were saying, ‘Holly was based on me!’ There’s [even] a quote in The Capote Tapes where Babe’s daughter [Kate] says, ‘Mummy was so excited to be immortalised by such a famous author.’ So, I think he was certainly expecting great praise.”

Babe Paley was Capote’s most aggrieved victim of “La Côte Basque 1965”. In it, Slim Keith’s alias, Lady Ina Coolbirth, reveals to the fictionalised version of Capote, PB Jones, the story that Paley is said to have told Capote about catching her husband, CBS head Bill, in bed with another woman. When Capote rang the Paley household to see what they thought of “La Côte Basque”, Bill is said to have lied, claiming that it was thrown out before either of them could read it; a distraught Babe, who had read it, and who considered Capote her closest confidante, had terminal lung cancer at the time of its publication and never spoke to Capote again before her death in 1978.

Such dismissal of his work would have affected Capote, says Burnough, but the fallout from the Swans leaving him would have been even worse. “Babe Paley was his North Star. She was everything he aspired to be and everything his mother aspired to be. [His mother] had always wanted to be a socialite, so his obsession came from her wanting but not being a part of that world, and then abandoning him as a child. There’s a lot of mother psychology there.”

It makes total sense that Babe Paley was the victim of Capote’s worst betrayal, says Lisa Pomerantz, the New York-based brand expert with a lifelong obsession with Capote and his era of social commentators. “She was the one that opened up the most to him. He took total advantage of her because the others – Lee Radziwill, CZ Guest [et al] – were always more guarded,” she says. “The question is, did he do it knowingly? He was a tortured soul, mostly because of his relationship with his mother – that combined with his natural obsession with this aspirational life and Babe and Bill being the epitome of it.”

Having been sent from New Orleans to Alabama to be raised by relatives after his parents’ divorce, Capote is said to have been a lonely, introverted child searching for a sense of belonging. So why, having infiltrated the glitzy New York scene as a bonafide player, did he blow it all up?

In tandem with craving acceptance, psychologist Carolyn Mair muses that, deep down, Capote resented the world he had managed to become a part of. “People warmed to him and wanted to protect him as he projected an identity of both child and woman, yet his wit could be razor sharp. His ability to remember conversations verbatim made him a good source of gossip,” she says. “Yet as his psychological problems worsened, it seems reasonable to assume that his judgement also worsened.” Shocking others, she adds, “can also be a way of getting attention”.

The backlash from other circles would also have been keenly felt by Capote, continues Mair. “The Swans were the high society who lived aspirational lives and were the envy of women across the States and elsewhere,” she says. “Ordinary people would have read about these women and their lifestyles in the press and fashion magazines and would relate to them as if they were also their friends. The publication of ‘La Côte Basque 1965’ would likely have triggered a shocked sense of betrayal amongst the readers of popular and fashion press at the time.”

Perhaps the most interesting upshot of the “La Côte Basque 1965” scandal, though? The ways in which it laid the groundwork for tabloid culture, says Burnough. “This was an era [in America] when no one even talked about the fact that Franklin Roosevelt was in a wheelchair, let alone the affairs people were having, let alone as graphically as Truman did. As the late, great John Richardson said, ‘[Capote] took the lid off a pile of shit’ and it started the exposé culture we have today. It was a real ‘gotcha!’ moment for the rich and famous.”